For higher availability and performance, storage offerings distributed data across different IT resources and locations. This can change storage requirements and increase the demand for a more flexible data structure. In these situations, data structure validation during queries may require high-performance connectivity between the distributed resources. Performance issues are avoided by storing identifiers (keys) and associated data (values) pairs and not enforcing data structure. Data query complexities are reduced significantly while simultaneously enhancing scalability and configurability. Semi-structured and unstructured data can also be scaled out among many IT resources without needing to access them in order to evaluate expressive queries.